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Players' hearts go out to Michael Jackson

By Ravi Ubha, ESPN.com

Friday, June 26, 2009

WIMBLEDON, England -- It was one of those "Where were you?" moments. Shortly after 10:30 p.m. England time, on a fourth straight day of fine summery weather in Blighty, a co-worker dining at a jam-packed Thai restaurant in heaving Wimbledon Village got a phone call. Voice rising, then subsiding as the call ended, she was told that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was dead. Whoa. Suddenly there was a heightened buzz at the four-seat table, and conversation about fish cakes, chicken satay and ...

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